v, 522 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 499-514) and index

The subject matter of ethics / G.E. Moore -- Ethical absolutism and the ideal observer / Roderick Firth -- Critique of ethics / A.J. Ayer -- Critique of Ayer / W.D. Ross -- Reply to critics / A.J. Ayer -- Expressivism / Allan Gibbard -- Selections from "Descriptive Meaning" and "Principles" / R.M. Hare -- Moral Beliefs / Philippa Foot -- Two distinctions in goodness / Christine Korsgaard -- Ultimate Good / Henry Sedgwick -- Value and pleasure / Robert Nozick -- The good of man / G.H. von Wright -- Desire and the human good / Richard Kraut -- The ideal / G.E. Moore -- What things are good? / W.D. Ross -- Perfectionism / Thomas Hurka -- What makes someone's life go best? / Derek Parfit -- Modern Moral Philosophy / G.E.M. Anscombe -- Virtues and vices / Philippa Foot -- The nature of the virtues / Alasdair MacIntyre -- The subjectivity of values / J.L. Mackie -- Values and secondary qualities / John McDowell -- Errors and the phenomenology of value / Simon Blackburn -- Moral explanations / Nicholas Sturgeon -- Results, the test of right and wrong / G.E. Moore -- Act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism / J.J.C. Smart -- The real and alleged problems of utilitarianism / Richard Brandt -- What makes right acts right? / W.D. Ross -- Obligation and motivation in recent moral philosophy / William K. Frankena -- A modified divine command theory of ethical wrongness / Robert Adams -- My confession / Leo Tolstoy -- Meaning and the value of life / Paul Edwards -- Morality and the meaning of life: some first thoughts / Norman Dahl -- Goods and lives / Michael Slote

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